Is Apple Preparing An All-Out Onslaught Against Dropbox?

If you place files inside a hidden Mobile Documents folder on
your Mac, these files will sync immediately to all of your other
Apple devices and Macs,
MacWorld discovered.

This file-syncing solution is meant only for apps that utilize
iCloud's "Documents And Data" syncing feature.

Popping files into the folder isn't as easy right now as it is
with Dropbox and SugarSync. But it is strong evidence that Apple
is considering a new Dropbox-like project.

All Apple would have to do is make this folder visible and call
it "My iCloud Files." Apple didtry to buy
Dropbox that one time, after all, and got rejected big time.

Apple's iDisk cloud server has filled this gap up until now, but
iDisk got lost inside the iCloud mix. There has been
some
evidence (pictured below) that Apple is thinking
about an iCloud folder for files, before this trick was found.

When iCloud launched, users were left without an Apple-built
solution for transporting various files between remote
computers—files that aren't wrapped up in Pages, Keynote, or
iTunes at least.

If you want to try out the trick yourself, make sure "Documents
And Data" is turned on within iCloud settings, then navigate to
Library inside your Home folder, and then find
Mobile Documents.

Then, throw some files into the folder. These files should sync
to any Macs where you're signed in using the same iCloud
credentials.

Right click to create an "alias" of the Mobile Documents folder
on your desktop, and you're good to go.

Can't find Library? Use this
trick to un-hide the folder. Can't find Mobile
Documents? The folder does not appear unless you've
purchased apps like Pages, Numbers, or Keynote that utilize the
Mobile Documents folder.